Like most cities across the United States, Boston has been coming to terms with the roles its ancestor residents played in the enslavement and trafficking of Black African and Indigenous peoples in the Northeast and the greater Atlantic world. Sites along the Freedom Trail have been incorporating stories about Black and Indigenous Bostonians, free and unfree, into their
New research shows the experiences of Black and indigenous parishioners at Boston's Old North Church. Those experiences and stories are now part of an online video series called "Illuminating the Unseen." The person responsible for series, research fellow Jaimie Crumley, joins us to talk it.
How does the myth of America being a “chosen” nation lead to the religious nationalism we see today? Harvard Divinity School’s Dr. Catherine Brekus talks about how the myth is a complicated mixture of arrogance, exploitation, reform, racism and violence. She looks at the roots of this myth, how it has played out through our country’s history, and the ways that the recent surge of white Christian nationalism reflects a deep uneasiness about the loss of Christian privilege in this country.
By Leah Silvieus '21 M.A.R. Boston’s Old North Church is most known for its role in the beginning of the American Revolution. It was there that church sexton Robert Newman and vestryman Capt. John Pulling Jr. climbed the steeple and used two lanterns as a signal from Paul Revere that the British were advancing across the Charles River. However, Jaimie Crumley ’15 M.Div., ’16
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